Middle English Dictionary Entry
bāking ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | bāking ger. |
| Etymology | bāken v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action or process of baking; (b) the product of baking; baked goods.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 Pennyw.Wit(1) (Auch)285 : Wiþ brewing, bakeing and oþer chaffare.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)251a/a : Brede..is þe more hoote by cause of hete of þe fuyre and of bakynge.
- (1423-4) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.180 : For bakynge of an Goos.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)21 : Bakynge: Pistura.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)59 : Þe corn xall serue to brede at þe nexte bakynge.
b
- (1465) Paston4.212 : My master spent in whete, to make brede and odre bakenge xiij seme.
2.
Combs.: (a) ~ craft, the art of baking; (b) ~ hous, a bakery; (c) ~ irnes, a pair of metal plates between which the sacramental bread was baked; ?also sg. ?half of such a pair; ?some other sort of baking pan; (d) ~ panne.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)226b/a : By bakyng craft, brede is y made of mele.
b
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)21 : Bakynge howse: Panificium.
c
- (1352-3) Sacrist R.Ely 2155 : In j pari de Bakynghernis emendand.
- (1404) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100396 : Item in custodia Subsacriste 6 paria de bakyng yrnys et vinum pro officio usque ad festum Sci. Martini.
- (1412-13) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100403 : Exp. pro ecclesia..pro reparacione del knoll et bakyngyrns.
- (1432) in Mun.Magd.Oxf.[OD col.]11 : Item, ij bakyngyres.
- (1432-3) *Will E.Strete (Comm.Crt.London) [OD col.] : Duo par de bakyngirnes, unum pro shosynlyngbred [?] & aliud pro singyngbred.
- (1482-83) Acc.Ashburton in D&CRS n.s.153 : [To] John Clyff [for a] tweyst [and for mending a] bakyng yre, [6d.]
d
- (c1422) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12206 : j bakyng pann erea.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1475(a1396) Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)185/4 : He may not ben made riȝte and euen withoute grete beykynge and bowynge, riȝt as a croked staf may not be made euen, bot if it be keste & beiked in þee fiire.
Note: New form: Also..beiking.
Note: New subsense for sense 1.(a).
Note: Gloss: "also, fig. the process of moral or spiritual discipline, correction."--notes per MLL